Àngels Barceló says goodbye to SER with a message: "I am already the left-hand page and now it's time to complete the right-hand one"

BarcelonaThe change at the helm of the leading radio program in Spain, Hoy por Hoy on Cadena Ser, took effect this Thursday. Àngels Barceló surprisingly bid farewell to the audience at the end of the program, along with her team, with a message hidden in a metaphor: "It's the last Hoy por Hoy I'm doing. It's over. Be happy for me, please – she told her colleagues–. We're turning the page. I'm already the left page, and now it's time to complete the right page," she said, fueling rumors that point to her disagreement with the company's management having political connotations, which Prisa denies.

It hasn't even been three weeks since the Prisa group made it public that Barceló was leaving the station, after 21 years. For seven years she had been directing the morning show, which remains the leader with more than 3.2 million daily listeners. "We're leaving, Sastre, with the best audience, with historic figures," the journalist remarked on air. She also said that for the moment she is going on vacation "without losing sight of the information".

A week after the announcement, it became public that Barceló's replacement would be Aimar Bretos from San Sebastián, the current host of the evening magazine Hora 25. Today the station's programming has been finalized, and it has been announced that Barceló's right-hand man, the Valencian journalist and writer forged at Ràdio Barcelona, José Luis Sastre, will precisely direct Hora 25, a program that Barceló had previously directed (2008-2019).

Thus, SER will have three men at the helm of the three main news programs at the company, because Carles Francino will continue to lead the afternoons.